Genevieve Kay Bishop

Genevieve “Kay” Bishop, recently retired associate
professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies,
Graduate School of Education, died Jan. 10 after a long
illness.

Bishop joined UB’s library science program in 2002,
shortly after the School of Information and Library Studies became
the School of Informatics. The School of Informatics was dissolved
in 2006, but moved as a department of Library and Information
Studies to the UB Graduate School of Education.

Bishop earned a BA in English education from Florida State
University, an MA in library science from the University of South
Florida, a MEd in guidance and counseling from Washington State
University and a PhD in library and information studies from
Florida State.

She had a varied career, which included service in the U.S.
Peace Corps as a volunteer English and science teacher in Nepal; as
a junior high and high school English teacher; a media specialist
in schools in Florida and Germany; and a librarian at the American
school in Montagnola-Lugano, Switzerland.

Her career in higher education included faculty positions at
Murray State University, the University of Southern Mississippi,
the University of Kentucky, the University of South Florida, and
finally UB. She retired in December 2012.

Bishop was a member of and frequent contributor to the
conferences and publications of the International Association of
School Librarianship and the American Library Association’s
following divisions: Association for Library and Information
Science Education, Association for Library Service to Children,
American Association of School Librarians (and Educators of Library
Media Specialists Section) and Young Adult Library Services
Association.

She also was a member of the New York Library Association,
School Librarians' Association of Western New York, University of
South Florida Alumni Association, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Kappa Phi,
Friends of Nepal and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

A celebration of life/memorial service will be held on Anna
Maria Island, Fla., within the next few months.